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13 décembre 2013

Rare vase meiping en porcelaine bleu blanc et rouge de cuivre, Dynastie Qing, Époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

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Lot 183. Rare vase meiping en porcelaine bleu blanc et rouge de cuivre, Dynastie Qing, Époque Qianlong (1736-1795); 47,5 cm, 18 3/4 in. Estimate 120,000 — 150,000 EURLot Sold 157,500 EUR . Photo Sotheby's 2013

le corps élancé s'élargissant a l'épaulement doucement arrondi puis se rétrécissant en un court col aux bords ourlés, entirerement décoré de chilong bondissants au corps sinueux parmi les nuages tourbillonnants et lys épanouis peints en bleu foncé et rouge de cuivre vif, le col enserré de cinq chauves-souris portant des objéts precieux, l'épaulement de têtes de ruyi abritant des lotus, la partie inférieure de la panse habillée d'une bande de feuilles de bananier stylisées rehaussées de rouge de cuivre.

A fine and rare large blue and white and copper-red decorated vase, meiping, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795)

Collection Dr Ignazio Vok

Provenance: Christie’s Tokyo, 15th February 1981, lot 313.
Acquired from Spink & Son, London, in May 1982.

Exhibited: Seladon Swatow Blauweiss. Chinesische Keramik aus der Sammlung Ignazio Vok, Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst der Stadt Koeln, 7. Mai - 28. August 1983, no. 127.
Seladon Swatow Blauweiss. Chinesische Keramik aus der Sammlung Ignazio Vok, Museum Rietberg, Haus am Kiel, Zuerich, 6. Oktober - 8. Januar 1984, no. 127.

Literature: Ulrich Wiesner, Seladon Swatow Blauweiss. Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Ignazio Vok, Cologne, 1983, cat. no. 127.

Note: Impressive for its unusually large size, the present vase is entirely decorated with an unusual design of sinuous chilong clambering amongst ornate foliate scrolls. Rendered in tones of powdery cobalt blue and soft underglaze red, the design successfully combines established motifs with contemporary decorative elements. The chilongincorporated into the design are characterised by broad feline heads, long sinuous bodies, rounded paws with short claws and curly tails, all painted in the Ming style where it is described as the immature hornless dragon in contemporary texts. The ornate leafly scrollwork surrounding the dragons incorporates stylised flower motifs that show the baroque Western influence in the decorative repertoire of Qing applied arts. 

No other vase of this size and underglaze blue and copper-red decorated design appears to be recorded. Several meiping decorated only in underglaze-red with similarly clambering sinuous chilong are known, compare, for example, a vase sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22nd May 1979, lot 201, and a second vase decorated withchilong grasping stems of lingzhi, sold at Christie's New York, 19th September 2007, lot 404.

Sotheby's. Arts d'Asie. Paris, 12 déc. 2013

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